Movie ‘The Story of the Good Samaritan – The Story of a Site’
The story of THE GOOD SAMARITAN from Imageworkplace | Rob Nelisse on Vimeo. Do you want to know more? Do you want to know more about the academic background of this movie? You...
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Overcoming Dichotomies: A Conversation That Continues
On Friday 23 September 2022 Dr. Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater and Dr. Martijn Stoutjesdijk organized a book launch for their edited volume Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. During the book...
A Persian Parable on Humility
In recent years, we have published many blogs on this website about parables in ancient Judaism and Christianity. This year we want to broaden our view in three ways: to parables from other periods...
The Mystery of Abraham’s Circumcision
In our series of guest blogs, we are proud to introduce a contribution by a ‘friend of the Parable Project’: dr. Ronit Nikolsky. Dr. Nikolsky is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen....
Parable of the Month March: Combining the Serious and the Funny in a Purim-Mashal
The Jewish holiday of Purim falls on the 14th of the Jewish month Adar. This year, this is on March 10. On Purim, the biblical book of Esther is read. The story of Esther...
Parable of the Month February: the wicked ones will die naked
In Semachot, a tractate on the laws pertaining to people on their deathbed, mourning and funeral rites (750 CE), the following parable can be found: Semachot de Rabbi Hiya 3: the robbing slaves (translation...
Which Lazarus? Bowie’s “Lazarus” and the reception of the New Testament
Last week, I went to see David Bowie’s musical “Lazarus” in Amsterdam. It was an amazing performance, with great singing, dancing, acting and beautiful stage-effects. The story? Well that’s not so easy. A man...
Parable of the Month November: The ashamed bridegroom
“The God of my father, and I will exalt Him” (Exod 15:2). I am a queen, daughter of kings, beloved, the daughter of beloved ones, holy, the daughter of holy ones, pure, the daughter...
Food for Slaves: Teaching Subpar Souls in the Gnostic Gospel of Philip
In this blog we take a look at an Early Christian parable from an unexpected source: the Gospel of Philip. Before discussing the parable itself, let us take a brief look at his rather...
A Man Fleeing from a Unicorn Falls into a Well with a Dragon: Parables in the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
The first edition of the Sacrum Martyrologium Romanum published in 1584 lists 27 November as the feast day of Barlaam and Josaphat. The text contains the following note on these saints, “In India at...
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